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rickiimarieee
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I've read on diet soda and regular soda and I wanna know your opinion. I stopped drinking soda quite a bit ago because when you drink to many normal sodas you gain weight from the excess calories. Will I gain weight drinking diet soda? How much should I limit myself too? Will I gain weight from drinking it even though it has 0 calories?
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It has no calories so it will not cause you to gain weight.16
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Really? I mean I have no idea so im not gonna shut down that statement or anything but it just seems so unhealthy.14
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You can't gain weight with something that has zero calories.
A calorie is a unit of energy. When you consume energy in excess of what your body needs, you store that energy for later use as body fat. When you consume less energy than your body requires, you burn body fat to make up the difference...essentially your backup generator kicks on to make up for the energy deficiency. Something that provides zero energy (calories) can't make you gain weight.rickiimarieee wrote: »Really? I mean I have no idea so im not gonna shut down that statement or anything but it just seems so unhealthy.
Whether something is healthy/nutritious or not has nothing to do with calories (energy). There are any number of highly nutritious whole food items that are also calorie bombs and if eaten in excess will cause weight gain...even though they're very healthy foods to eat from a nutritional standpoint. One has nothing to do with the other.
I have a diet Fresca or diet A&W root beer pretty much everyday. Also, when you're talking about "healthy" it is really best to look at your diet on the whole as well as dosage. I would say diet soda is pretty my neutral from a "healthy" standpoint unless you're just guzzling it by the liter. It certainly doesn't cancel out all of the other awesome nutrition I have taken in during the day.14 -
cwolfman13 wrote: »You can't gain weight with something that has zero calories.
A calorie is a unit of energy. When you consume energy in excess of what your body needs, you store that energy for later use as body fat. When you consume less energy than your body requires, you burn body fat to make up the difference...essentially your backup generator kicks on to make up for the energy deficiency. Something that provides zero energy (calories) can't make you gain weight.rickiimarieee wrote: »Really? I mean I have no idea so im not gonna shut down that statement or anything but it just seems so unhealthy.
Whether something is healthy/nutritious or not has nothing to do with calories (energy). There are any number of highly nutritious whole food items that are also calorie bombs and if eaten in excess will cause weight gain...even though they're very healthy foods to eat from a nutritional standpoint. One has nothing to do with the other.
I have a diet Fresca or diet A&W root beer pretty much everyday. Also, when you're talking about "healthy" it is really best to look at your diet on the whole as well as dosage. I would say diet soda is pretty my neutral from a "healthy" standpoint unless you're just guzzling it by the liter. It certainly doesn't cancel out all of the other awesome nutrition I have taken in during the day.
Yeah I mean just like one or two cans a day. I'm definitely not turning down anyone's statement. what about the aspartame? Thank you all for all the knowledge I appreciate it!!7 -
rickiimarieee wrote: »cwolfman13 wrote: »You can't gain weight with something that has zero calories.
A calorie is a unit of energy. When you consume energy in excess of what your body needs, you store that energy for later use as body fat. When you consume less energy than your body requires, you burn body fat to make up the difference...essentially your backup generator kicks on to make up for the energy deficiency. Something that provides zero energy (calories) can't make you gain weight.rickiimarieee wrote: »Really? I mean I have no idea so im not gonna shut down that statement or anything but it just seems so unhealthy.
Whether something is healthy/nutritious or not has nothing to do with calories (energy). There are any number of highly nutritious whole food items that are also calorie bombs and if eaten in excess will cause weight gain...even though they're very healthy foods to eat from a nutritional standpoint. One has nothing to do with the other.
I have a diet Fresca or diet A&W root beer pretty much everyday. Also, when you're talking about "healthy" it is really best to look at your diet on the whole as well as dosage. I would say diet soda is pretty my neutral from a "healthy" standpoint unless you're just guzzling it by the liter. It certainly doesn't cancel out all of the other awesome nutrition I have taken in during the day.
Yeah I mean just like one or two cans a day. I'm definitely not turning down anyone's statement. what about the aspartame? Thank you all for all the knowledge I appreciate it!!
Don't believe all the fear-mongering you read. Aspartame has been around a long time and it's very safe.
Diet soda is neither "healthy" nor "unhealthy". It's just a no-calorie beverage.14 -
It's an almost zero calorie drink that is almost all water with some flavouring and extremely low calorie sweetener.
You know fat is stored surplus energy and you cannot get energy from a drink that doesn't contain energy.
So try to think how it can cause fat gain?
Aspartame has been studied for many decades and passed as safe for human consumption by every food standards agency in the world.
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rickiimarieee wrote: »Really? I mean I have no idea so im not gonna shut down that statement or anything but it just seems so unhealthy.
If it doesn't fit in with your goals then don't drink it.
Too many calories cause weight gain - since diet soda doesn't have calories it can't result in excess calories.
You have to decide what "healthy" or "unhealthy" means to you. As others have stated it's just a beverage.3 -
Ready2Rock206 wrote: »rickiimarieee wrote: »Really? I mean I have no idea so im not gonna shut down that statement or anything but it just seems so unhealthy.
If it doesn't fit in with your goals then don't drink it.
Too many calories cause weight gain - since diet soda doesn't have calories it can't result in excess calories.
You have to decide what "healthy" or "unhealthy" means to you. As others have stated it's just a beverage.
What I meant by healthy was more of will I gain weight but since it's no calories as you all explained I have my answer as to I can drink it without weight gain!3 -
rickiimarieee wrote: »Ready2Rock206 wrote: »rickiimarieee wrote: »Really? I mean I have no idea so im not gonna shut down that statement or anything but it just seems so unhealthy.
If it doesn't fit in with your goals then don't drink it.
Too many calories cause weight gain - since diet soda doesn't have calories it can't result in excess calories.
You have to decide what "healthy" or "unhealthy" means to you. As others have stated it's just a beverage.
What I meant by healthy was more of will I gain weight but since it's no calories as you all explained I have my answer as to I can drink it without weight gain!
To be absolutely clear the only thing that will ever cause you to gain weight is to intake more calories than you expend. That is literally all there is to it. The complexity comes from finding a set of foods and drinks that adds up to an amount of calories where you will lose weight while allowing you to feel sated and satisfied as well as provide adequate nutrition. Diet soda has almost zero calories and no real nutritive benefit so it's neutral when it comes to health or weight. It could give you some feeling of satisfaction if you enjoy it in which case go for it.
As for aspartame being dangerous without launching into it again I'd just suggest you be a bit skeptical about "wellness" website that speak of reasons to fear things while coating their site in ads or trying to sell you their health plan.11 -
do you want opinions or facts? you'll hear a million different opinions on here, but the facts are what others listed above - completely safe for regular consumption and does not cause fat gain.5
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It can become addicting. I started and can't quit diet soda. I crave it. Sorry I ever started.
So you really like it then. Okay. How has this "addiction* negatively impacted your life? Is it possible that the addictive ingredient is the caffeine which is what people do often become habituated to and suffer headaches if they don't have?
I mean addiction wise you probably could just switch over to coffee or tea. If you don't do that because you much prefer the taste of soda then could it be less about addiction and more about habit, routine and what you prefer to drink?14 -
Regular soda: 160 calories
Diet soda: 0-10 calories
For everything else: there's Photoshop.13 -
In the past I lost half my bodyweight and I drank diet soda every day. today I prefer it. Now after gaining some weight again Im on track with weight loss and still drinking it every day.1
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What is with all the soda posts lately?! Did Oz/Oprah do a segment on it or something?10
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Heather4448 wrote: »What is with all the soda posts lately?! Did Oz/Oprah do a segment on it or something?
I was thinking the same thing?!
It has no calories, it won't make you gain weight.1 -
Here we go again. I have to ask what's next? Is drinking water going to make me fat and then kill me unless it's certified organic and comes from Whole Foods?10
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fun math.
The diet cranberry soda i have here is 5 calories per can.
Itd take 360 cans to hit my calories for the day.
Im going to go ahead and say even the diet drinks with a few calories wont kill my meal plan... (imagine the bathroom time though oh my)
And considering majority are 0 cal, Your good.8 -
JaydedMiss wrote: »fun math.
The diet cranberry soda i have here is 5 calories per can.
Itd take 360 cans to hit my calories for the day.
Im going to go ahead and say even the diet drinks with a few calories wont kill my meal plan... (imagine the bathroom time though oh my)
And considering majority are 0 cal, Your good.
Not to mention the electrolyte imbalances through peeing so much.0
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